Week in photos

Sugarloaf Mountain is silhouetted during a fiery sunrise in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the host city for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.

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A Spanish miner holds a tire next to a burning barricade near Santiago mine in Caborana, Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a general strike in all mining regions of Spain organized by unions opposed to subsidy reductions.

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A nomadic woman from the desert Indian state of Rajasthan walks a camel carrying her belongings along a road at Biaora in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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A man removes garbage from seaweed covering a beach in the coastal city of Qingdao, located in eastern China’s Shandong province.

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A roadside vendor waits for customers at his stall of clocks and watches in the old quarters of Delhi, India.

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Riot police charge at students in Kathmandu protesting against Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s trip to Brazil to participate in the Rio+20 summit.

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Smoke billows from the face of a cliff after the detonation of a rock hanging over the railway and the A2 motorway, Switzerland’s main north-south connection through the Alps. The railway was closed after a rock slide trapped workers last month, killing one.

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An Israeli soldier detains an Arab-Israeli after he tries to pass a road block made by the police in the Israeli Negev desert, south of Beer Sheva. Israel was still hunting for up to four gunmen who infiltrated the Egyptian border and staged a deadly ambush.

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A Filipino carries his bicycle through floodwaters after a heavy downpour in Quezon City, Philippines.

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An Indian worker cleans windows of a commercial building in Mumbai, India.

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Farmers herd a flock of ducks toward a pond as residents drive next to them in Taizhou, Zhejiang province China.

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Spain supporters cheer prior to the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group C match between Croatia and Spain in Gdansk, Poland.

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Franco-Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is the first woman to exhibit in the gardens and in the rooms of Versailles Palace, from June 19 to September 30. Vasconcelos seeks to transform everyday objects with inventive techniques in order to create a dialogue between past and present.

A race goer poses for photographs on the first day of the Royal Ascot, southwest of London.

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A Roma girl, wearing women’s boots, crosses a bridge in Craica, a shantytown in Romania. Rights groups have accused local authorities of “violating legislation and trampling the dignity of Roma inhabitants, by forcibly evicting hundreds of them” and relocating them in buildings belonging to a copper processing plant closed down over pollution concerns.

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Greek Presidential Guards march at the monument of the unknown soldier in front of the Parliament, in Athens.

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A miner stands close to a fire barricade after clashing with Spanish Civil Guards during a miner’s protest in Cinera. Spanish coal miners burned tires and blocked roads during a mass strike to protest against subsidy cuts that they say threaten tens of thousands of jobs.

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A girl plays in fountains at a public square in Vienna as temperatures rose into the 90s in Austria.

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Firefighters pose in front of burning hay spelling the name “Dyrk” in Longview, Texas. The firefighters are among several companies in Texas honoring 4-year-old Dyrk Burcie, who is suffering from terminal liver cancer and is the son of a Dallas firefighter.

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Children play with a broken bicycle on the bank of Naf river in Taknaf, Bangladesh.

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Luka Rocco Magnotta is taken by police from a Canadian military plane to a waiting van in Mirabel, Quebec. Magnotta, the suspect in the killing and dismemberment of a Chinese student, returned to Canada via military transport from Germany, where he was arrested earlier this month.

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A Navy Ceremonial Guard carries the casket of US Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Sean Brazas, during a burial service in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Sean Brazas, of Greensboro, North Carolina, died in Panjwa’l, Afghanistan, at the age of 26 when he was attacked while trying to help someone get onto a helicopter, according to his father, Ed Brazas.

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Policemen warm up before an exercise during a Weight Loss Management Program at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Philippines. More than 3,000 overweight policemen assigned at the national headquarters are undergoing an eight-week slimming program to improve their health.

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Aspiring models wait for the results of the selection process during auditions for the upcoming Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai. India’s fashion and trade event will be held August 3-7.

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An Afghan girl sits with her mother at The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration centre on the outskirts of Peshawar, as they prepare to return to their home country after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule.

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Teenagers enjoy a dip in the sea with Carnival Cruise Lines’ new Carnival Breeze in the background in Salerno, Italy. The 1,004-foot-long cruise ship, cost $740 million and accommodates 3,690 passengers.

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Smoke billows from the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins, Colo. The wildfire has burned about 90 square miles and destroyed more than 180 homes.

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President Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico.

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Indian Kushti wrestlers warm up for a practice session in the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Kushti.

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Thousands of South Korean taxi drivers wave red banners reading “price stabilization of LPG, used as an alternative fuel for most taxis,” at a rally staged during a nationwide strike in Seoul.

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A transport truck burns in the southbound lanes of the turnpike near the Beeline Highway in Palm Beach, Florida.

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Tourists take a picture next to a street artist dressed up as Mozart on a hot and sunny day in Vienna.

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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves through The Great Gate after receiving her honorary degree at Oxford University, in England. Myanmar’s Nobel laureate continued an emotional visit to Britain, where she left her family 24 years ago and took up her famous struggle against the military dictatorship in her homeland.

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A “toddy tapper” walks on a rope as he crosses between coconut trees to collect sap to make palm wine, or toddy as it is known locally, in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka. Toddy is a popular local beverage made by fermenting the sap collectd from coconut trees.

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ATibetan man holds an umbrella in the shape of Tibetan flag inside a Tibetan refugee camp, in Katmandu, Nepal. The camp, which houses around 350 Tibetans who have crossed the border into Nepal from Tibet, was set up in 1960 under the initiative of the International Red Cross and the Swiss Development Corporation.

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The sun rises at the Litzlalm mountain near Weissbach in the Austrian province of Salzburg.

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A man runs on a beach near a huge sculpture made from plastic bottles, backdropped by a silhouette of Sugarloaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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An Iraqi security personnel inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad. A car bomb exploded on Wednesday in the centre of Iraq’s northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, killing three civilians and wounding nine others.

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A salvage platform floats in front of the wreckage of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbour of Giglio Porto in Tuscany Italy. The salvage operation is to move the capsized ship away from the island of Giglio, where it ran aground three months ago.

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An art installation called “Misconceivable” is fixed onto the roof of a hotel in Vienna. The installation of the lifesize yacht is an arts project by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.

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Ai Weiwei, third from right, argues with a policeman outside his home in Beijing. Chinese police on Wednesday barred Ai from attending the first hearing of a lawsuit brought by his company against Beijing tax authorities and blocked reporters from filming at the courthouse, part of an intimidation campaign aimed at silencing the prominent artist and outspoken government critic.

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A Kashmiri flower seller rows his boat on the Nigeen Lake on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges.

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Afghan security officials present seven Taliban members linked to “Quata shura” allegedly involved in criminal activities in the area, after their arrest in Herat, Afghanistan. Media reports said that the Afghan National Police launched various operations against criminals and militants in different parts of the country.

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French police officers are seen during a raid against an alleged member of al-Qaeda who took four hostages in a bank, in Toulouse.

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A man gets dangerously close to a raging Miller Creek as it flows through Lincoln Park in West Duluth, Minneapolis.

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A Bulgarian man cools off in a waterfall in Bistritsa River, near the town of Blagoevgrad.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron greets Myanmar opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi outside 10 Downing Street in London. Aung San Suu Kyi addressed both houses of the British parliament — a rare honor bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since World War II. Suu Kyi will follow in the footsteps of President Obama and Pope Benedict XVI when she speaks in the 11th-century Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliament complex.

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Brazilian natives hand over of the Kari-Oca II Declaration to leaders attending the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World leaders in Rio are weighing steps to root out poverty and protect the environment as thousands of activists held protests to denounce Amazon rainforest deforestation, the plight of indigenous people and the “green economy” being advocated at the UN gathering.

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A window cleaner works outside on the 23rd floor of a hotel in Ningbo, China.

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An Afghan couple walk in front of a brick factory in Surkh Rod district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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A man playing an accordion beneath a costume of torn fabrics, and a child leave the Stonehenge monument in southern England, during the summer solstice. Latter-day druids and revelers flocked to Stonehenge through heavy rain to talk, dance and meditate as they waited for sunrise, which starts the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.

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Devotees throng around chariots as they wait to pull them during the annual Hindu festival “Rath Yatra,” or Chariot procession, at Puri, Orissa state, India. The annual procession of the three idols of lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra is taken out in a grand procession in specially made chariots called raths.

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Kids jump, play and swim in a pool set up in a street in Philadelphia. Temperatures climbed toward the high 90’s along the Eastern Seaboard as an unusually early hot spell heralded the official start of summer.

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Indian policemen gather as firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the headquarters of the Maharashtra state government in Mumbai, India. Hundreds of employees were evacuated Thursday from the seven-story government building as more than two dozen fire companies battled the fire that raged for more than three hours in India’s financial and entertainment capital.

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A student from the University of Indonesia descends into Jomblang cave near the ancient city of Yogyakarta. Jomblang cave is known for its fertile and dense vegetation and is located at the karst hills that run along Central Java to West Java provinces.

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Kashmiri farmers walk through rice fields in Bandipora, north of Srinagar.

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A porter loads baskets specially used to carry vegetables and fruits, on top of a bus near a market in Kathmandu.

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Portugal soccer fans wait for the start of the Euro 2012 quarter-final soccer match against Czech Republic at the National stadium in Warsaw, Poland.

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Airlie Dodds wearing a World War I nurses uniform walks through a display of 110 canvas army tents in central Sydney. The installation is to promote the exhibition “Nurses : From Zululand to Afghanistan” currently on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The exhibition tells the personal stories of service nurses, from those in the Zulu War of 1879 to the men and women serving in recent conflicts and peacekeeping operations.

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Workers survey the monks’ living quarters, that collapsed after workers tried to raise the area to avoid potential floods, in Ayutthaya north of Bangkok.

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A child stands on a tank painted with flowers exposed near the “Mother of the Fatherland” statue in Kiev.

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Afghan security forces and civilians are seen at the Spozhmai hotel on Lake Qurgha where security officials say Taliban insurgents have killed nearly two dozen people, most of them civilians, in an attack just north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, flies with the Breitling DC-3 over Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. It is the first time that Rossy has ever flown with a passenger plane as passengers watch him at eye level. The Swiss aviator dropped from a helicopter and deployed the Jet powered carbon-kevlar Jetwing, which he uses his body to steer to perform the flight.

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A Chinese child, center, adjusts his rice dumpling-shaped hat while performing on a stage during the opening of the Duanwu Festival held at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China.

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An Indian firefighter sprays water as he tries to douse a fire in a shanty in New Delhi, India. A fire swept through a slum in the Indian capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale.

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A Palestinian youth carries stones as he runs away from Israeli troops during clashes with Israeli troops during the weekly protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Kdumim, in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum.

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A Greek fan holds a flag prior to the Euro 2012 football championships quarter-final match Germany vs. Greece at the Gdansk Arena.

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Supporters of Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy attend Friday prayers before a demonstration against the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egypt’s ruling military council criticized the two presidential candidates for making premature claims of victory on Friday and said it would stand by a decree limiting the new president’s powers, which many see as prolonging military rule.

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Bolivian policemen attack the Police Intelligence headquarters, close to the Government Palace as they protest in La Paz, Bolivia. Hundreds of policemen, accompanied by their wives, attacked the place and burned documents demanding salaries on par with soldiers and a pension equal to 100 percent of their salaries. President Evo Morales who is out of the country for the Rio+20 environmental summit in Brazil has asked for calm and measures of dialogue with the police agents.

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Flood waters surround a Moose Lake, Minn. school and the areas next to Moosehead Lake. Damage assessment teams from FEMA are expected to be in the area next week to start tallying the damage to public infrastructure in 14 counties and one Indian reservation.

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Zhenkun Duan of China competes in the Waterski Women’s Wakeboard Final on Day 6 of the third Asian Beach Games at Jiulong Lake in Haiyang, China.

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A man swims in a pond on the outskirts of Kolkata.

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People release lanterns in Poznan, Poland. Thousands of lanterns were released to mark the shortest night of the year.

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Smoke is seen as heavy armored vehicles wait during a South Korea-US joint military live-fire drills at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea. The drills were held in a show of combat readiness ahead of the 62nd anniversary of the start of the Korean War on June 25.

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A couple kiss as they cool off in a fountain on a hot summer day in downtown Donetsk, Ukraine.

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An elderly man feeds his dog under the shade of trees at a park in Tokyo.

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Participants take part in a mass yoga class to mark the summer solstice in Times Square in New York. Thousands of yogis gathered to celebrate the longest day of the year in an event that featured four free mass yoga session in the heart of Manhattan.

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Cheerleaders perform on center court before the women’s beach volleyball final at the 3rd Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, Shandong Province.